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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes...

Selected works aby the influential cognitive and mathematical psychologist and decision theorist Amos Tversky.

The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as a treatment for depression.Ketamine, approved in 2019...

Boredom in modern and contemporary art: as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored as a potential site...

The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil...

The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research,...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical,...

How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.In videogame criticism,...

A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors aby classifying program phrases...

Energy in Nature and Society is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major energy sources, storages, flows, and conversions that...

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and architecture theorist and the author of The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984) and other...

Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published...

The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to...

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.Today, data science is...

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual...

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series...

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities...

An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints.

An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging...

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an...

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.

An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used...

Discover the key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy from grand strategist...

Consider sublimation - conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims,...

A substantially revised fourth edition of a comprehensive textbook, including new coverage of recent advances in deep learning and neural...

The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your...

An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time.

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged żeby its cocreators.When...

Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological...

How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income...

Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing...

Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did...

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G....

The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. When designers and artists learn the...

Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd...

How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover--filling needs that even the most sophisticated...

Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum,...

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal...

Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between...

In the tradition of Real World Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide, Panos Louridas is back to introduce algorithms in an accessible manner, utilizing...

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum...

This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical...

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process and presentation, from the basics of how to draw a line to the complexities of...

New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news.What is fake news? Is it an item on...

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers...

We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we there yet?ż) Boredom is often connected...

The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and...

A concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations....

This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is...

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.

This revealing memoir żeby Aldo Rossi (1937--1997), one of the most visible and controversial figures ever on the international architecture...

How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce aby pursuing "ends"--actual outcomes--rather than selling "means"--their products and...

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital...

Experts review the latest research on the neocortex and consider potential directions for future research.Over the past decade, technological...

SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time...

An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually...

Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography can be considered conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation. Their work can...

The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online,...

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation,...

In a world of growing innovation for digital technologies, Kat Holmes, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, redesigns...

The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves and black market blue jeans. And yet, as Djurdja Bartlett...

Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing...

These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are "vehicles," a series...

Boosting is an approach to machine learning based on the idea of creating a highly accurate predictor aby combining many weak and inaccurate...

This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what we know about the structure and function of the nervous...

In the era of ubiquitous computing, metadata has become infrastructural, like the electrical grid or the highway system. We interact with...

A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed...

Why the microbiome--our rich inner ecosystem of microorganisms--may hold the keys to human health.We are at the dawn of a new scientific...

An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.Infographics...

Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a...

The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and...

What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and...

Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason - to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic...

An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.

Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - marked a historic turn in artificial intelligence, returning to...

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions.

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building...

An introduction to information retrieval, the foundation for modern search engines, that emphasizes implementation and experimentation.

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium - with a deeper and wider...

Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread--to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons...

Consciousness in all its possible human and nonhuman varieties, explored through words and images. What is consciousness, and who (or what)...

drawings by Duane Bibbyforeword aby Gerald J. SussmanThe notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human...

The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Zizekisms. Unlike any other book żeby Slavoj Zizek,...

A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.Today, people...

A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist...

As pop culture, games are as important as film or television - but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary....

This advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory - including strategic form games, Nash equilibria, subgame perfection,...

One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait - like perfect pitch - synesthesia...

Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped żeby hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards are...

We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their...

It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world...From Pong to...

We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities...

Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu,...

For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors,...